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Ashwagandha RootWithania somnifera
₹340
Vana is a one-room herbal shop above the tea line in Munnar. We gather, dry and bottle in batches of forty — so nothing you buy has been sitting on a shelf since last season.
Three families in Idukki, Wayanad and Kodaikanal pull our roots and leaf. They cut in the cool of the morning, dry in the shade, and bring it down to us the same week.
Nothing is tumbled, bleached or sprayed. If a batch comes in wet or short we send it back, which is why the index is eight items long and not eighty.
Nothing in this shop was grown in a hurry.